- Title
- SEAmester – South Africa’s first class afloat
- Creator
- Ansorge, Isabelle J, Brundrit, Geoff, Brundrit, Jean, Dorrington, Rosemary A, Fawcett, Sarah, Gammon, David, Henry, Tahlia, Hermes, Juliet, Hölscher, Beate, d’Hotman, Jethan, Meiklejohn, Ian, Morris, Tammy, Pinto, Izidine, Du Plessis, Marcel, Roman, Raymond, Saunders, Clinton, Shabangu, Fannie W, De Vos, Marc, Walker, David R, Louw, Gavin
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65539
- Identifier
- vital:28808
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/a0171
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- From Introduction: Marine science is a highly competitive environment. The need to improve the cohort of South African postgraduates, who would be recognised both nationally and internationally for their scientific excellence, is crucial. It is possible to attract students early on in their careers to this discipline via cutting-edge science, technology and unique field experiences. Through the engagement of students with real-life experiences such as SEAmester, universities supporting marine science postgraduate degree programmes can attract a sustainable throughput of numerically proficient students. By achieving a more quantitative and experienced input into our postgraduate degree programmes, we will, as a scientific community, greatly improve our long-term capabilities to accurately measure, model and predict the impacts of current climate change scenarios. The short-term goal is to attract and establish a cohort of proficient marine and atmospheric science graduates who will contribute to filling the capacity needs of South African marine science as a whole. The SEAmester programme, by involving researchers from across all the relevant disciplines and tertiary institutions, provides an opportunity to build a network of collaborative teaching within the marine field. In doing so, these researchers will foster and strengthen new and current collaborations between historically white and black universities (Figure 1). The long-term objective of SEAmester is to build critical mass within the marine sciences to ensure sustained growth of human capacity in marine science in South Africa – aligning closely with the current DST Research and Development strategies and the Operation Phakisa Oceans Economy initiative.
- Format
- 4 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Science, Ansorge IJ, Brundrit G, Brundrit J, Dorrington R, Fawcett S, Gammon D, and others. SEAmester – South Africa’s first class afloat. S Afr J Sci. 2016;112(9/10), Art. #a0171, 4 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/a0171, South African Journal of Science volume 112 number 9/10 1 4 September/October 2016 0038-2353
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- Copyright held by the authors
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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RU Department of Geography
Dorrington, Rosemary A (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Marine Natural Products
RU Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Bioinformatics
SDG 04. Quality Education
SDG 14. Life Below Water
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